College Research
The day a college stops accepting applications is called this.
What is a deadline?
Some colleges require students to select one of these when applying, also known as an academic focus.
What is a major?
This document is the historical academic record for a student.
What is the transcript?
This is the platform that you will most frequently use to submit your applications to colleges.
What is Common App?
Trinity College Counselors use these three terms to refer to a students' projected admissibility to a specific college.
What is Likely, Realistic, and Reach?
One benefit of the Common App is that students only write a single main one of these.
What is an essay or personal statement?
At Trinity, College Counselors use this platform to send supporting documents on the students' behalf.
What is Scoir?
This binding application round requires a contractual agreement to be signed.
What is Early Decision?
This is the term used to describe a college that aligns with the student's interests, goals, values, etc.
What is "best fit?"
There are 10 spaces available for these on the Common App.
What are Activities?
At Trinity, students request their teacher recommendation letters on this platform only.
What is Scoir?
If a student is applying to a college with test scores, they likely will need to send formal reports from one of these platforms.
What is College Board or ACT?
On Scoir, this feature shows a graph of previous Trinity students who applied to that college, their academic stats, and outcomes.
What is the Scattergram?
This is an additional essay or writing sample required from a specific college.
Who are the student, a parent, and the college counselor?
Students can request this if the cost of applying to college may be a financial challenge for their family.
What is a Fee Waiver?
On Scoir, this feature allows you to search for colleges based on various criteria.
What is Discover?
Students must waive their right to this on both the Common App and Scoir for authentic recommendation letters and document processing.
What is FERPA?
College counselors create and send this document alongside students' transcripts to help colleges understand Trinity's curriculum, graduation requirements, etc.
What is the School Profile?
Used to track received materials and decisions, students must set one up for each college applied to after they click submit.
What is a portal?